

I came up with some things that were inspired by that.

Kirby had done the New Gods, which I thought was terrific. Starlin has admitted the character's look was influenced by Jack Kirby's Darkseid: and later on I liked beefing him up so much that he continued to grow in size. Thanos was a much thinner character and Roy suggested beefing him up, so he's beefed up quite a bit from his original sketches . I felt that this may be my only chance ever to do a character, not having the confidence that my career was going to last anything longer than a few weeks. So I came up to Marvel, and editor Roy Thomas asked if I wanted to do an issue of Iron Man. and Drax the Destroyer, but I'm not sure how he fit into it, just anger management probably. military service and getting work in comics, and there was a psych class and I came up with Thanos . Writer-artist Jim Starlin originally conceived of Thanos of Titan during college psychology classes. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thanos was portrayed by Damion Poitier in The Avengers (2012) and by Josh Brolin in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019) through voice and motion capture, as well as the first season of What If.? (2021). Although these events were later undone, the storyline has remained one of the most popular published by Marvel.ĭebuting in the Bronze Age of comic books, the character has appeared in almost five decades of Marvel publications, as well as many media adaptations, including animated television series and video games. The character's perhaps best-known role came in the 1991 storyline The Infinity Gauntlet, the culmination of several previous story arcs, which saw him successfully assembling the six Infinity Gems into a single gauntlet and using them to kill half of the universe's population, including many of its heroes, in an effort to earn the affection of Mistress Death, the living embodiment of death in the Marvel Universe. While usually portrayed as an evil-bent villain, many stories have alternatively depicted Thanos as having a twisted moral compass and thinking of his actions as justified. He has clashed with many heroes including the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men. An Eternal– Deviant warlord from the moon Titan, Thanos is regarded as one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe. He was created by writer-artist Jim Starlin, and made his first appearance in The Invincible Iron Man #55 ( cover date February 1973). Thanos is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Possessed access to nearly all powerful mystical artifacts and weapons.Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and agility.The Invincible Iron Man #55 (February 1973) Textless variant cover of Infinity #4 (October 2013).
